Fun Stuff > CHATTER
Weather Channel founder wants to sue Al Gore
ViolentDove:
It is something you can clean up.
I'm not even going to get into the specifics of the science, let alone the way the body of science works.
What gets me is that people who say "Oooh global warming is a trendy conspiracy, there's still lots of debate, the science isn't certain" generally use it as an excuse for doing nothing.
Thing is, it makes perfect economic and environmental sense to act as if global warming is man made, even if it isn't.
The reason being making cars more fuel efficient, switching to renewable energy sources, making industrial processes more energy efficient, hell, even making residential homes more energy efficient- all of these things save you money in the long term and reduce pollutants that negatively impoact human health.
Eating less meat might help avert human induced climate change, but guess what- it's also healthier for you! It also reduces erosion to arid farmland caused by overgrazing and hard-hoofed animals!
Running cars of something other than oil might might help avert human induced climate change, but guess what- it also allows you to stop invading other countries to ensure supplies of foreign oil keep flowing!
I personally think global warming is one of the most important symptom of a lot of problems with our society. But even if you ignore global warming, these problems still have plenty of other harmful symptoms which can be addressed using exactly the same actions.
If people can't act on the possibility that they might completely fuck up the earth because they don't believe the majority of scientists involved in the field, then at the very least you'd think they can act out of selfish reasons, like their own wallet and health.
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: Leonidas on 12 Aug 2008, 07:57 ---
--- End quote ---
oh awesome cox & forkum
hey what do you guys think about the middle east
oh cool
how about talks with palestinian leaders
hm fascinating
john kerry, do you have an opinion on him
neat
i think we've heard eno
okay guys we'v
listen i need to keep posti
oh god they'll kill me someone get hel
Leinad:
Am I going to be ostracized because I found those mildly amusing?
Leinad:
Lol, I didn't say I agreed with them, I just laughed at them.
IronOxide:
I rarely find bigotry amusing. But y'know, different strokes.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version